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Innovation facets part 6: Anticipatory innovation

A diamond shape made up of four smaller diamonds. The point of the diamond on the left points towards the words certainty and exploiting/incremental. The point of the diamond on the right points towards the words Uncertainty and exploring/radical. The point of the diamond at the top points to the words Directed and shaping/top-down. The point of the diamond at the bottom points to the words Undirected and responding/bottom-up. The four smaller diamonds are all labelled. the one on the left being 'Enhancement-oriented innovation', the one at the bottom 'Adaptive innovation', the one at the top 'Mission-oriented innovation', the one on the right 'Anticipatory innovation'. The four smaller diamond shapes are separate from each other by an X shape. In the words between each of the diamonds, are descriptions. Between Enhancment-oriented innovation and mission-oriented innovation there is 'sustaining change', between mission-oriented innovation and anticipatory innovation there is 'transformative change', between anticipatory innovation and adaptive innovation there is 'disruptive change', and between adaptive innovation and enhancement-oriented innovation there is optimising change.

In the last post in our innovation facets series, we went through what is

Innovation facets part 5: Adaptive innovation

Four overlapping circles with four identified intersections. The top circle is labelled "mission-oriented innovation", the right circle "anticipatory innovation", the bottom "adaptive innovation", and the left "enhancement-oriented innovation". The four intersections are labelled "transformative changes" between mission-oriented and anticipatory, "disruptive changes" between anticipatory and adaptive, "optimising changes" between adaptive and enhancement-oriented, and "sustaining changes" between enhancement-oriented and mission-oriented.

In the last post in our innovation facets series, we looked at mission-oriented innovation.

Innovation facets part 4: Mission-oriented innovation

In the last post in our innovation facets series, we looked at the particulars

Innovation facets part 3: Enhancement-oriented innovation

In our first two pieces looking at the innovation facets, we have described how

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